Western Union Launches Bill Presentment Solution for Smartphones
19 6월 2012 - 9:00PM
Business Wire
The Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), a leader in global payment
services, today announced the release of an enhancement to its
Western Union® Speedpay® service designed to help billers meet
growing consumer demand to receive electronic bills through
smartphones and mobile devices. The enhancement also allows
consumers to pay their bills directly from their mobile devices
with just one click.
The enhancement was developed with eBill presentment specialist,
Striata, and operates across multiple platforms and devices,
including Android™, Blackberry®, iPhone®, iPad®.
“Our Western Union® Payments Money Mindset Index shows that
consumers, whose use of mobile devices is outpacing all other
media, are looking for a wider range of payment options from
billers,” David Shapiro, senior vice president, Payments, Western
Union, said. “Western Union is dedicated to providing billers with
robust bill pay solutions, while giving consumers a variety of
user-friendly options to receive and pay their bills.”
One-third of Americans own a smart phone of some kind, according
to Pew Research, with nearly 40 percent using their smart phone for
online banking*.
Helping Billers Better Serve Their Customers
The Western Union Speedpay eBill payment and presentment,
(EBPP), solution helps billers reach consumers who prefer to access
their email from their mobile devices. The enhanced solution allows
consumers to receive gas, water, electric, mortgage, insurance and
other bills as a simple, secure email attachment that can be opened
with just one click. Consumers also enjoy the convenience,
reliability and 24-hour access to one-click bill payment
processing.
“Email delivery of bills is ideally suited to the mobile
channel. Through an encrypted attachment, recipients are able to
open, view and pay their electronic bills on any email-capable
mobile device or tablet, without the need to download any
application or software - it's as simple as opening an email
attachment,” Garin Toren, Striata, chief operating officer,
said.
For more information on Western Union services,
visit www.westernunion.com.
*Pew Research Center, “Americans and their cell phones,” Aug.
15, 2011, p. 10
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About Western Union
The Western Union Company is a leader in global payment
services. Together with its Vigo, Orlandi Valuta, Pago Facil and
Western Union Business Solutions branded payment services, Western
Union provides consumers and businesses with fast, reliable and
convenient ways to send and receive money around the world, to send
payments and to purchase money orders. As of April 24, 2012, the
Western Union, Vigo and Orlandi Valuta branded services were
offered through a combined network of approximately 500,000 agent
locations in 200 countries and territories. In 2011, The Western
Union Company completed 226 million consumer-to-consumer
transactions worldwide, moving $81 billion of principal between
consumers, and completed 425 million business payments.
About Striata
Striata unlocks the power of email and mobile messaging. The
company’s electronic delivery solutions dramatically increase
customer adoption of paperless bills, statements, policies,
marketing and other high volume system-generated documents. The
world’s largest financial services, utility, insurance, retail and
telecommunications companies achieve unrivalled results by
replacing print and mail with Striata’s interactive electronic
documents and transactional messages. Striata’s enterprise
platform, strategy and support services drive significant paper
suppression; deliver ongoing cost savings; accelerate payments;
enhance the customer experience and enable regulatory compliance.
The company’s comprehensive solutions expand the digital dialogue
through personalized customer lifecycle messaging, retail receipts,
notifications and alerts. A global paperless communications
specialist with over a decade of experience, Striata has operations
in New York, London, Brussels, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Sydney and
partners in North and South America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
www.striata.com
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